It was accessed by a British expedition team, but the American owners of the rights to the Titanic, based in Atlanta, say the U.K.-based company had no business doing so and even that the submarine used to explore the wreck bumped into the ship. Because the Britannic is so deep, it is out of the reach of recreational divers just looking for an underwater adventure.

Now, however, the Greek government is considering changing those rules and allowing some divers to go onto the Britannic, an effort officials say is intended to boost tourism. The Titanic is world famous largely because it sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.

Photograph: Antonello Paone, Yannis Tzavelakos is a professional diving instructor, and he told the New York Times recently that he hopes the legislation passes. But how will those licences be granted? Until this new law came under discussion, no wreck that dates between 1860 and 1970 was allowed to be explored. Image provided by Simon Mills, owner of the wreck. We need to see proof that designs like these will go through.”. “Such initiatives can only facilitate innovative projects and add to the tourism industry. The legendary wreck of the HMHS Britannic on the Mediterranean floor is to be opened up to diving tourists, Greek officials say. “It is a positive development,” he stated. Related Article: Legal Bombshell: Submarine Struck the Titanic Wreck and Didn’t Report It. The spat is now in the courts, in Virginia.

All the passengers save 30, astonishingly more than 1,000 people, were spared. Unfortunately the Titanic exploration has not set a good example of how mutual operations such as these could be handled. The Britannic wreck was found by the late, renowned oceanographer and researcher Jacques Cousteau in 1975. The United States and the U.K. have an agreement about these matters that states they will decide together who to give licences to, as each country has an interest in the issue.

The new legislation, which is likely to pass as early as next month, will include other sunken, historic sites in Greek waters, including a German second world war plane and a British submarine, the HMS Pereus, which sank in 1941 when it was also hit by a mine. Some are in favor of the change while others, predictably, are not. Until now, it has been protected by stringent laws that say access to ships like the Britannic is verboten, laws that make wrecks off limits to the avarice of divers who might plunder them for the antiquities aboard. In 1916, on its way to fetch wounded soldiers in the Middle East, it struck an enemy mine and sank within one hour. The court battle now underway in America about the Titanic will, no doubt, have a major impact on the future of the Britannic, and other treasures resting on the sea floor, out of sight but rarely out of mind. So even if the Greek government relaxes rules regarding access to the Britannic wreck and other historic wrecks in its waters, a fundamental question remains: how will licences be given to those who want to explore them, and who will be allowed to keep the artifacts rescued from the deep waters? The vessel was changed from an ocean liner to a naval hospital ship during the First World War, and was serving Great Britain in the Aegean Sea. Will they belong to those who undertake the expedition, or the country from which the ship sailed, its true owner? The Britannic sinking The Britannic wreck was found by the late, renowned oceanographer and researcher Jacques Cousteau in 1975. Join 1000s of subscribers and receive the best Vintage News in your mailbox for FREE, Police arrest a 72-year-old “suburban grandfather” suspected of being the Golden State Killer, “I’m not dead yet”: some Buddhist monks followed self-mummification, Project Azorian: Howard Hughes’ secret mission, 1960s U.S. satellite that started transmitting again in 2013, The “Walk of Shame” in Game of Thrones historical inspiration, The only unsolved skyjacking case in U.S. history might have a break, Kurt Gödel became too paranoid to eat and died of starvation, “Little Ease”: One of the most feared torture devices in the Tower of London, The humble English girl who became Cora Pearl, Walt Disney softened the original Snow White story.

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